Ella Fitzgerald - A Night of Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald '2022

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. You Do Something To Me
02. Desafinado
03. Dream A Little Dream Of Me (Single Version)
04. All Of You
05. What Is This Thing Called Love?
06. The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else
07. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
08. Too Marvelous For Words
09. Let Yourself Go
10. Cheerful Little Earful
11. The Song Is Ended
12. You Make Me Feel So Young
13. This Year's Kisses
14. A-Tisket, A-Tasket
15. Soon
16. Top Hat, White Tie, And Tails
17. My One And Only
18. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
19. Dites Moi
20. A Beautiful Friendship
21. The Blue Room (Stereo Version)
22. Little White Lies
23. If I Were A Bell (Long Version)
24. Somebody Loves Me
25. Taking A Chance On Love (1962 Album Version)
26. You Turned The Tables On Me
27. No Moon At All
28. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
29. Hooray For Love
30. Out Of This World
31. Day In Day Out
32. Bidin' My Time
33. I've Got You Under My Skin
34. Volare
35. Guys And Dolls
36. Manhattan (Stereo Version)
37. You're An Old Smoothie
38. How's Chances?
39. This Time The Dream's On Me
40. Rough Ridin' (1962 Version)
41. This Can't Be Love
42. As Long As I Live (1963 Version)
43. Love Me Or Leave Me
44. He Loves And She Loves
45. Hear Me Talking To Ya
46. Swingin' Shepherd Blues (Alternate Take)
47. Almost Like Being In Love
48. That Certain Feeling
49. Isn't It Romantic? (Stereo Version)
50. Your Red Wagon
51. No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)
52. Close Your Eyes
53. Bli-Blip
54. Mean To Me
55. I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
56. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
57. Let's Fall In Love
58. Gone With The Wind
59. Whisper Not
60. Shall We Dance?
61. They All Laughed
62. You Couldn't Be Cuter
63. Tea For Two
64. Would You Like To Take A Walk?
65. Satin Doll
66. Gotta Be This Or That
67. I've Got Your Number
68. Who Cares?
69. Easy To Love
70. I Was Doing All Right
71. Come Rain Or Come Shine
72. Don't Fence Me In
73. Ev'rything I've Got
74. All Of Me
75. Sweet And Slow
76. The Lady Is A Tramp (Stereo Version)
77. Can't We Be Friends?
78. Just One Of Those Things
79. Nice Work If You Can Get It
80. It's Only A Paper Moon
81. Time After Time
82. A Foggy Day
83. Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin'
84. You Can Depend On Me
85. Satin Doll (1956 Version)
86. I'm Old Fashioned
87. 'S Wonderful
88. I Won't Dance
89. I Could Write A Book (Stereo Version)
90. East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon)
91. Jersey Bounce
92. Blue Skies
93. A Fine Romance
94. My Kinda Love
95. I Get A Kick Out Of You
96. Makin' Whoopee
97. Knock Me A Kiss
98. Drop Me Off In Harlem
99. Don't Be That Way
100. Love Is Here To Stay
101. Too Darn Hot
102. A Fine Romance
103. Let's Fall In Love
104. Cherry Red
105. After You've Gone
106. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
107. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
108. I Won't Dance
109. They Can't Take That Away From Me
110. Duke's Place
111. I've Got The World On A String


 moreBorn in 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, Fitzgerald grew up in a
working-class family in Yonkers, New York. Her parents split up soon after her
birth, and she was largely raised by her mother, Temperance "Tempie" Fitzgerald,
and her mother's boyfriend Joseph "Joe" Da Silva. She also had a younger
half-sister, Frances, who was born in 1923. To help with the family's finances,
Fitzgerald often worked odd jobs including, at times, running bet money for
local gamblers. By her teens, the self-professed tomboy was active in sports and
often played in local baseball games. Influenced by her mother, she also enjoyed
singing and dancing, and spent many hours singing along to records by Bing
Crosby, Connee Boswell, and the Boswell Sisters. She also began taking the train
to see shows with friends at Harlem's Apollo Theater. In 1932, her mother died
from injuries sustained in a car accident. Deeply distraught over the loss,
Fitzgerald went through a difficult period that found her skipping school and
getting in trouble with the police. She was subsequently sent to a reform
school, where she endured abuse by her caretakers. Eventually breaking free from
the reformatory, she found herself on her own in New York during the height of
the Great Depression. Despite her struggles, she worked to pursue her love of
performing. In 1934, she entered and won an amateur contest at the Apollo,
singing Hoagy Carmichael's "Judy" in the style of her idol, Connee Boswell. In
the house band that night was saxophonist Benny Carter, who took the young
vocalist under his wing and encouraged her to keep developing her career.

More contests followed, and in 1935 Fitzgerald won a weeklong spot singing with
Tiny Bradshaw at the Harlem Opera House. There, she met influential drummer
Chick Webb, who agreed to try her out with his orchestra at a one-nighter at
Yale University. She won the crowd over, and spent the next few years with the
drummer, who became her legal guardian and reworked his show to feature the
singer. The band's fame grew exponentially with Fitzgerald, as they dominated at
the Savoy battle of the bands, and issued a string of Decca 78s, scoring hits "A
Tisket-A-Tasket," in 1938, and the B-side "T'aint What You Do (It's the Way That
You Do It)," as well as "Liza," and "Undecided." As the singer's career was on
the rise, Webb's health had begun to decline. Though only in his thirties, the
drummer, who had struggled with congenital spinal tuberculosis throughout his
life, would purportedly collapse from exhaustion after playing a set.
Nonetheless, he forged onwards, hoping to keep his band working through the
Depression. In 1939, not long after undergoing major surgery at Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, Webb died. Following his death, Fitzgerald
continued to front his band with much success until 1941, when she decided to
pursue a solo career.

Sticking with Decca, Fitzgerald was teamed with the Ink Spots, Louis Jordan, and
the Delta Rhythm Boys for several best-sellers, and in 1946 began working
regularly for manager Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic. Though often
regarded as a pop vocalist during her time with Webb, Fitzgerald had begun to
experiment with scat singing, a sound she further developed during these years.
She toured with Dizzy Gillespie's big band, and soon adopted bebop as an
integral part of her style, punctuating her live sets with instrumental-style
scat solos that wowed audiences and earned her respect from her fellow
musicians. Her recordings of "Lady Be Good," "How High the Moon," and "Flying
Home" during 1945-1947 were released to great acclaim and helped solidify her
stature as a major jazz vocalist. It was while working with Gillespie that she
met and married bassist Ray Brown, living with him from 1947 to 1953, during
which time she often performed with his trio. The couple also adopted a son, Ray
Brown, Jr., (born to Fitzgerald's half-sister Frances in 1949) who would go on
to his own career as a pianist and vocalist. In 1951, the singer paired with
pianist Ellis Larkins for the duets album Ella Sings Gershwin, on which she
interpreted George Gershwin songs, prefiguring her later Songbooks series.

After appearing in the film Pete Kelly's Blues in 1955, Fitzgerald signed with
Norman Granz's Verve label. Her longtime manager, Granz had specifically
launched Verve with the sole purpose of better showcasing her voice. Beginning
with 1956's Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, she would record an extensive series
of Songbooks albums, interpreting the music of the Great American Songbook
composers, including Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, Duke
Ellington, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer. The prestigious albums,
which earned Fitzgerald her first four Grammys at the 1959 and 1958 Grammy
Awards, further raised her stature as one of the great singers of all time.
Other soon-to-be-classic albums followed, including her 1956 pairing with Louis
Armstrong Ella & Louis, 1957's Like Someone in Love, and 1958's Porgy and Bess
with Armstrong. Also under Granz's guidance, Fitzgerald toured often, issuing a
handful of highly regarded live concert albums. Among them, 1960's Ella in
Berlin included her off-the-cuff take on "Mack the Knife" in which she forgot
the lyrics and improvised her own. One of the best-selling albums of her career,
Ella in Berlin earned her Grammy Awards for Best Vocal Performance Single Record
or Track, Female, and Best Vocal Performance Album, Female. The album was later
inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

Verve was sold to MGM in 1963, and by 1967 Fitzgerald found herself without a
contract. She spent the next few years recording for a number of labels like
Capitol, Atlantic and Reprise. Her albums during these years also found her
updating her repertoire with modern pop and rock songs such as Cream's "Sunshine
of Your Love" and the Beatles' "Hey Jude." She sang traditional hymns on 1967's
Brighten the Corner, while 1969's Ella included her last U.S. chart single with
a cover of Smokey Robinson's "Get Ready." Nonetheless, Fitzgerald remained an
immensely popular and highly regarded performer. In 1967, she was bestowed with
the Bing Crosby Award (later named the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award) at the
10th Annual Grammy Awards.

However, her later years were again marked by the influence of Granz after he
founded the independent Pablo Records. A concert album, Jazz at the Santa Monica
Civic '72, featuring Fitzgerald, pianist Tommy Flanagan, and the Count Basie
Orchestra, gained popularity via mail-order sales and helped Granz launch the
label. More albums followed throughout the '70s and '80s, many pairing the
singer with artists like Basie, Oscar Peterson, and Joe Pass, among others.
While diabetes affected her eyes and heart during this period, forcing her to
take breaks from performing, Fitzgerald always retained her joyful style, and
exuberant sense of swing. Away from the stage, she was committed to helping
disadvantaged youth, and made contributions to various charity organizations. In
1979, she was honored with a Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of
Honor Award. Also, in 1987, President Ronald Reagan awarded her the National
Medal of Arts. More accolades followed, including a Commander of Arts and
Letters award from France, and numerous honorary doctorates from Yale, Harvard,
Dartmouth, and other institutions. Following a concert at New York's Carnegie
Hall in 1991, she retired from her career. Fitzgerald passed away on June 15,
1996, at her home in Beverly Hills, California. In the decades following her
death, Fitzgerald's reputation as one of the most influential and recognizable
figures in jazz and popular music only increased. She remains a household name
around the world, and has received a number of posthumous accolades, including
four Hall of Fame Grammys and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. ~ Matt Collar

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